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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1911
Page
2
A brutal wind event following a major storm sweeps across Boston coastward. It hurls a 2 by 30 foot doorway and damages buildings as workers rescue injured men including Frank Younger Donald C McPherson and Joshua Annis Breen. Chandler dies while others suffer head injuries.
A brick party wall at 86 Brimmer Street collapsed during construction for Dr. Henry F. Sears, killing one worker and injuring four others, two perhaps fatally. Building officials investigated, attributing the accident to high winds as crews labored after noon.
A massive 75 foot long electric beer sign weighing 35 tons toppled from its anchors onto the Premier Theatre roof at 4 40 yesterday afternoon. One man, H N Corbett, was injured by glass. Three thousand onlookers waited as crews and authorities warned of further danger.
An advertisement extols a California Fig Syrup and Senna elixir as refreshing and beneficial. It emphasizes simple wholesome ingredients, gentle cleansing without disturbing natural functions, and urges buying the genuine product from reputable druggists for fifty cents per bottle with the California Fig Syrup Co. name clearly printed on the package.
In Brookfield the Con gregational Church steeple swayed over Main Street as high winds bent the structure. Crowds watched, traffic was halted, and workers planned to straighten or drop the steeple if the wind subsides. The bar holding the tower remained intact by nightfall.
Thomas Mead, aged to be years old, was knocked into the Charles River while guiding ice from the cakes toward the channel near Prospect Street Bridge. The fall occurred in front of a crowd of six hundred ice workers from the Waltham Ice Company. He remained submerged six minutes before rescue and, due to advanced age, faces possible fatal shock from the exposure.
Four people died when a sign torn from a building by a high wind collapsed on Market Street in Philadelphia. Victims named include John F. Ellis a four-year-old digger Henry Hahn Ruth Seybold 17 and Emma A Vining. A card in Vining s pocket asked to notify William H Church of Amherst Massachusetts if any accident befell her.
A heavy wooden door toppled into the blacksmith shop at 587 Commercial Street during a storm yesterday. Rocco Sarni and two employees were overwhelmed. Sarni suffered cuts and bruises but escaped with minor injuries. His brother Charles and Joseph Newhall were also shaken. two horses and two light buggies were damaged. Sarni valued damages at 500 dollars.
A fierce winter gale hit Newport with gusts around 70 miles per hour and a dropping temperature. The Providence struggled into harbor from Fall River, others stayed ashore. Minor damage included blown billboards and trees uprooted. two freight cars lost their roofs en route.
Severe hurricane cripples rail and steamship lines across Newfoundland. Wires down and trains blocked, ships unable to depart ports, and smaller craft adrift with damage reported. No lives confirmed, feared danger to Canadian fishing vessels in Fortune Bay seeking herring cargo.
A large tree uprooted by Saturday's storm fell at Greenough and Washington streets blocking the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway trolleys for about 30 minutes. The force of the wind loosened a plate glass window in the Thompson Block Newton Centre, causing the glass to fall and break.
A gust of wind blew into Flagg and Willis furniture store in Brockton breaking a large plate glass window. The fall endangered several passersby as the entire lower section tore from its fastenings and shattered into many pieces.
Fred M. Hardy a 53 year old carpenter was blown from the roof of a house at 260 Pleasant Street by yesterday’s gale and died later from a fractured skull. The incident occurred in Newton, with Hardy at work on the roof when wind struck.
A powerful storm battered Narragansett Bay in Bristol Rhode Island with winds up to 80 mph. The raged sea churned mud from the seabed coloring the waters brown and forcing the Sagar moving between Bristol and Bristol Ferry to suspend service.
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to druggists and a product labeled Stoic Insine Tablets with a page reference and an author or brand W. Groy. No clear event, date, or outcome is readable.
The Eddy heirs and Salisbury heirs push U S Supreme Court review of wills involving Worcester Art Museum and Boston First Church of Christ Scientist. Contested issues: charitable property limits, legality of posthumous legislative acts, and whether real estate holdings were authorized. Benjamin W. Hubbard represents the Salisbury heirs. attorneys Snow and Knight lead the Brigham heirs’ appeal.
A Boston inquiry found no evidence that James Donovan or others were on the payroll of the New England Sanitary Product Company or that Donovan used his city influence to secure the garbage contract. The exonerating letter to Donovan cites a thorough investigation ordered by the Board of Aldermen in August 1909.
A local affidavit from Vermont states Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root cured a kidney pain sufferer after seven bottles with six months clear of pain. The note, signed by John Frazier and witnessed by W E Powers, affirms the remedy s efficacy and long term relief in Franklin County.
The document states that all evidence held by the subject was submitted but no proof could be found to substantiate the charge. The office therefore dropped the matter, in a closing note from Assistant District Attorney Michael J. Dwyer.
The advertisement touts Fioods sarsaparilla as the World's Greatest Blood Purifier and Strength-Giver. It promises to build you up and urges consumers to choose Hood's, available in liquid form or Sarsatabs chocolate tablets.
Mary A Byrnes widow of William J Byrnes and mother of the late Edward Byrnes dies. Funeral from Worchester Street residence with a 9 oclock requiem at Immaculate Conception Church. Edward A Caraway dies in Charlestown with services at St John's Episcopal Church. Margaret L Donnelly widow of Bernard Donnelly funeral from Jamaica Plain residence with mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
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